| Probable cause affidavit: |
SUBMITTED By: STRICKLAND, JASON 0583 (AR08105569) DID UNLAWFULLY AND KNOWINGLY HAVE IN HIS/HER ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE POSSESSION A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, TO WIT: CANNABIS, COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS MARIJUANA, IN AN AMOUNT OF 20 GRAMS OR LESS, IN VIOLATION OF FLORIDA STATE STATUTE 893.13(6)(B). ON 100408 AT APPROXIMATELY 0127 HOURS, WHILE TRAVELING NORTH ON ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD, I OBSERVED A 1989 FORD THUNDERBIRD MAROON IN COLOR, RUN A STOP SIGN AT SOUTH COLUMBUS STREET AND ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD. I THEN CONDUCTED A TRAFFIC STOP ON THE ABOVE MENTIONED VEHICLE WITH THE TRAFFIC STOP ENDING LOCATION BEING AT ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD AND SOUTH TYLER STREET. I THEN MADE CONTACT WITH THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE/DEFENDANT ONE, MR SCOTT O'CONNELL, AND ASKED HIM FOR his DRIVER'S LICENSE, VEHICLE REGISTRATION, AND PROOF OF INSURANCE, AT WHICH TIME HE COMPLIED. I THEN RETURNED BACK TO MY PATROL VEHICLE AND UPON DOING SO, DEPUTY DAVIS AND CANINE MITO ARRIVED ON SCENE. DEPUTY DAVIS made CONTACT WITH THE DRIVER/DEFENDANT ONE, AND ADVISED HIM that HE WAS going TO CONDUCT A SEARCH USING HIS CANINE PARTNER. AT THAT TIME CANINE MITO MADE A POSITIVE INDICATION FOR THE PRESENCE OF NARCOTICS BY SNIFFING THE DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR. DEPUTY DAVIS THEN HAD DEFENDANT ONE, MR O'CONNELL EXIT THE DRIVER'S SIDE DOOR OF the VEHICLE. HE THEN ADVISED DEPUTY DAVIS AND I THAT HE HAD MARIJUANA IN THE LEFT FRONT POCKET OF HIS SHORTS. I THEN OBTAINED THE MARIJUANA FROM MR O'CONNELL'S LEFT FRONT SHORT POCKET, WHICH WAS PACKAGED IN TWO clear PLASTIC BAGGIES. BOTH BAGGIES CONTAINED APPROXIMATELY FIVE GRAMS OF CANNABIS. MR O'CONNELL WAS THEN PLACED UNDER ARREST, HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE-LOCKED) BEHIND his BACK AND SECURED IN the REAR SEAT OF MY PATROL VEHICLE. DEPUTY DAVIS AND I THEN MADE CONTACT WITH DEFENDANT NUMBER TWO, MR SHAUN ROACH, AND ADVISED HIM THAT HE NEEDED TO STEP OUT OF THE VEHICLE. MR ROACH ADVISED US THAT HE ALSO HAD CANNABIS IN THE RIGHT FRONT POCKET OF HIS SHORTS. I THEN OBTAINED ONE CLEAR PLASTIC BAGGIE OF CANNABIS FROM THE LOCATION MR ROACH ADVISED IT WOULD BE. THE BAGGIE WEIGHED APPROXIMATELY ONE GRAM. MR ROACH WAS THEN PLACED UNDER ARREST, HANDCUFFED (DOUBLE-LOCKED) BEHIND HIS BACK AND SECURED IN THE REAR SEAT OF MY PATROL VEHICLE. ALL MARIJUANA WAS FIELD TESTED, HAD A POSITIVE RESULT FOR CANNABIS. WE THEN NOTIFIED MR O'CONNELL'S FATHER WHO RESPONDED TO THE TRAFFIC STOP LOCATION AND TOOK POSSESSION OF MR OCONNELL'S VEHICLE. the DEFENDANT'S WERE THEN TRANSPORTED TO THE CITRUS COUNTY DETENTION FACILITY FOR FURTHER PROCESSING. BOTH DEFENDANT'S BONDS WERE SET, $500.00 EACH, PER THE BOND SCHEDULE. IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT the DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE/DEFENDANT ONE, received A WRITTEN WARNING NUMBER 220846B, FOR RUNNING A STOP SIGN AT SOUTH COLUMBUS STREET AND ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD. TWO PROPERTY RECEIPTS WERE COMPLETED which BOTH DEFENDANTS SIGNED OVER THEIR CANNABIS TO THIS DEPUTY. THE NARCOTICS WILL BE TURNED IN TO THE CITRUS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE EVIDENCE LOCKER AND the PAPERWORK WILL BE TURNED IN TO RECORDS. *NOT-EXEMPT* |
